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THE HISTORY OF THE 



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^^NCLUDING a brief history of the lives of 
fl| General Henry H. Sibley, his wife and L 
mother, and some Reminicences by our old pioneers 



Wr.Ueii and Illustrated by R. S. McCOURT 




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OFFICIAL D. A. R. SOUVFNIR, 1910 



Pii!.iishfd and Copvi i^lilcrl l.v R. S. McCourt, 19|l) 



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MINNESOTA STATE SONG 

Mrs. W. H. Burris 
l)v i.u'iH, Minn ksoia 



SPECIAL VERSE FOR FLAG-DAY. JUNE 14th, 1910 



^ir: — Tramp, Tramp, etc. 

We have gathered here to-day, 

From the cities of our state, 
To do honor to the flag we all revere. 
Many chapters have done well. 
But "St. Paul" doth all excel, 
As we laud them, these, our 
Daughters D. A. R. 
CHORUS: 

Hail ! Thrice hail ! to Minnesota, 

State of enterprises great. 
With our men up to the times. 

In our fields, or ports or mines, 
And we are justly called 

"The Bread and Butter State." 



MOST RKVEREND 

ARCHBISHOP JOHN IRELAND 

Through whose recommendation the donation of the Sibley 
House was made to the Minnesota D. A. R. 



THE HISTORY OF THE 



OLD SIBLEY HOUSE 



^#NCLUDING a brief history of the lives of 
^fj General Henry H. Sibley, his wife and 
mother, and some Reminicences by our old pioneers 



Written and Illustrated by R. S. McCOURT 




OFFICIAL D. A. R. SOUVENIR, 1910 



Published and Copyrighted by R. S. McCourt, 1910 




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MINNESOTA SOCIKTV 
DAUGHTKHS OK THK AMKKU'A.V HIOVOI.IITION 

(Incorporated) 




President — Mrs. D. W. McCourt, St. Paul Chapter St. Paul 

Vice Pres. — Mrs. E. H. Loylied, Charter Oak Chapter .. Faribault 
Sec.-Treas. — Mrs. F. H. Jerrard, St. Paul Chapter St. Paul 



BOAKD OF I) l!l';< Tons. 



Miss Dorotliy Loyhed, Anne Sargent Cliapter Minneapolis 

Mrs. G. IX. Curran, Antliony Wayne Chapter Mankato 

Mrs. J. H. Eggers, Abigail Burnliam Cliapter Plainview 

Mrs. K. D. Cliase, Cliarter Oak Chapter Farilaault 

Mrs. C. L. Cliase, Colonial Chapter Minneapolis 

Mrs. J. W. Bishop, Distaff Chapter St. Paul 

Mrs. Wm. Woodbridge, Daughters of Litjerty Cliapter. . .Dulutli 

Mrs. F. H. Gray, Fergus Falls Chapter Fergus Falls 

Mrs. W. H. Burris, Greysolon du Llnit Cliapter Dulutla 

Mrs. Grant Bronson, Josiah Edson Cliapter Nortlifleld 

Miss Marion W. Moir, Keewaydin Cliapter Minneapolis 

Mrs. C. W. Sclmeider, Minneapolis Chapter Minneapolis 

Mrs. Ell Torrance, Monument Chapter Minneapolis 

Mrs. L. C. Jefferson, Nathen Hale Chapter St. Paul 

Miss Rita Kelley, Reb. Prescott Slierman Chapter . .Minneapolis 

Mrs. A. F. Faitoute, Rochester Chapter Rochester 

Mrs. Dennis Follet, St. Paul Chapter St. Paul 

Mrs. F. A. Rising, Wenonali Chapter Winona 

Mrs. H. L. Stark, Captain Ricliard Sommers Cliapter .. .St. Peter 

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MRS. C. \V. WKLLS, Colonial Chajitcr, Minneapolis 
Minnusota State Regent, I). A. R., 1910— 




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MRS. D. \V. MceoURT, 

St. Paul Chapter 

President Minnesota Society, D. A. R. (Incorporated) 




MRS. E. II. LOVHED, Ex-State Regent 

Charter Oak Chapter, Faribault 
Vice-President Minnesota Society, D. A. R. 



"THE HISTORY OF THE OLD SIBLEY HOUSE. " 

The liisloi'v (if llic lioiiii' (•!' any tii'cat man inust of 
nceossity he a story oF the life of the man liimsdl'. At, 
the saine time it will deal willi 1lia1 pai't of the man's 
life of which we know llic least and arc most apt to l)e 
interested in. 

The old Sibley House has a history which is nnusii- 
ally interesting; partly because of the peculiar construc- 
tion of tlie house, and the fact of its l)cing the first of 
its kind in the state; and i)ai"tly because of the part its 
occupants have i)layed in making the history of the 
state. 

Three quarters of a century ago Henry II. Sibley, 
then the chief factor of the fur trade in INIendota, built 
for himself a home. The stone entering into its exterior 
construction was quarried near the trading post. The 
interior construction was done with the aid of a few 
French employes and a number of Indians. The large 
timbers which were used for braces, joists, beams, and 
window sills were all hand-hewn, and were joined to- 
gether by huge Avooden pegs. For lathes they used wil- 
lows and rushes, cut from the banks of the Minnesota 
river, these were woven together with withes made 
from weeds and grass taken from the riverbottoms. 
The i)laster was simply mud and (day which the river 
again supplied, and this was finally coated with a good 
modern j)! aster. This heavy interior construction to- 
gether with the heavy stone exterior made the house 
very warm and cosy.* 

Th(^ front room on the main floor served as Sibley's 



*In restoring the liouse a number of places have been 
left exposed so tliat visitors may view the original construc- 
tion. 



library and ofticc. Here he had. in one corner, the first 
safe ever l)uilt in tlic Nort Invest , and here lie conducted 
all the business of tlie fur company, and of his trading 
post. When Sibley married, liowever. he tin-ned this 
office into a parlor, and built an addition on the east 
side of his house for an office. In tliis addition is the 
only fireplace in the entire house. 

In place of his desk and counters in the old office, 
now stood fine new furniture, new Brussels carpets lay 
on the floor, and at one end stood flie first ]>iano ever 
brought to this region. The walls were hung with fine 
l>ietures, and the room assumed a genuine aristocratic 
air. On the first floor there was a fine large dining room 
running across the entire 1)uilding, and in the rear there 
was a large kitchen and a den. Five Ix'drooms and a 
store room occupied the second floor. Here, as well as 
in the spacious cellar, were stored tlie provisions for the 
entire winter. The Sibley house continually being 
flooded with guests and Indian visitors, there was 
enough provisions kept here to furnish food for a score 
or more people. 

On the west side of the house there once ran a stair- 
way up to the second floor, and the Indian visitors 
usually used this to climb up 1(^ the attic, and here they 
slei)t by the dozens every night, and sometimes, when 
the attic floor was covered, they slept in the parlor. 

Here ]\Ir. and ]\Irs. Sibley passed the earlier days of 
tlieir married life. In the Sibley parlor took place two 
notable marriages, between Mrs. Sibley's two sisters, 
Abbie and Kacliel. and Dr. Potts and (ieu. .Johnson. 

In the big frotil bedroom on the second floor the 
Sibley children were born, and si range 1o say each in 
a different state, the Ixuindai-ies of the states changing 
between the times of Ihcir births. One in Michigan; 
one in Wisconsin; one in Iowa : one in the Dakotas; one 
ill Minnesota terriloi-y, and one in Minnesota state. 

'i'his modest mansion of (ieiieral Siblev's was never 




A FEW NOTAELKS 

General Sibley and a few of the noted guests whom he entertained 

ill his Mendota Mansion. 



closed to the sti'aii<i'('r. jiiid was often times visited l),y 
travelers of military, seientifie. and ])olitical distinc- 
tion. Among the many iiotinl visitors, were Gov. Lewis 
Cass of Michigan; ]\Ia,jor II. S. Long; the eelehrated 
author Schoolcraft ; Jean ]\I. Nicollet, the explorer; 
Lieut. John C. Fremont ; Geo. Catlin, the artist and 
author; G. W. Featherstonhaugh, the U. S. geologist; 
Capt. IMaryatt, the author (whom Sibley dismissed from 
his home, for conspiring against the life of his host,* 
while the recipient of his hospitality) ; Count Harasty, 
Gov. Ramsey, and many others, equally famous. 

The burden of entertaining these guests was thrown 
upon ^Frs. Sibley and lier two sister, INIrs. Potts and 
]\Irs. Johnson, who did much toward making the house 
a welcome and cheery refuge for the traveler. 

In I860, Gen. Sibley removed his family to St. Paul, 
and sold his honu' to the St. Peter's Catholic parish in 
]\Iendota. The Catliolic Sisters then used th(> home as 
a parochial school, placed a bellfry on the roof, and re- 
modeled the interior. In 1897, '98, and '99, Burt Ilar- 
wood i-ented the building and here he conducted a sum- 
mer art school (see page 39.) 

In 1905 the parish had a new roof put on the house, 
and rented it to ^Ir. Pernier, a IMendota merchant, to b(^ 
used as a store house. Finally he had 1o abandon the 
use of the house, ;ili Ihe windows being out, the doors 
gone, and the storing of his goods there made unsafe. 

It now looked as if the house would never be pre- 
sei-x'cd as it should be. The Historical Society and I). 
A. I\. had tried often to obtain possession oi" it. but it 
could not be bought for love nor money. 

One day, however, the members of the jNIendota. 
parish were called together to decide the fate of the old 
mansion. The ])arish priest had received word from 
his Gi'ace. Ai-chbishop Irebirid. th;it it wouM i)lease him 



*A full account of this episode will be found in "West's 
Life Ancestry and Times of H. H. Sibley," page 91-9 2. 

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to soo tlio liouse placed in llie liaiids of some society, 
who might take care of and preserve it from ruin. At 
the same time was read a h'tter from the St. Paul 
Chapter D. A. R., to the clVcct that if the house were 
deeded to them, they would see that it was restored and 
made into a museum. This interest in the house by the 
St. Paul ( 'hapter. and this hind rcMpiest for the donation, 
by the Archbishop, were the results of the efforts of 
]\Irs. D. W. IMcCourt of St. Paul, who conceived and 
carried out the idea. The St. Paul Society was incor- 
porated with ]\Irs. ^IcCourt as chairman of the board of 
directors, and steps were soon taken to turn the house 
over to the state D. A. R. 

Articles of incorporation were drawn up and ap- 
proved, at the state council meeting March 12th, and 
on April 19th, at the St. Paul quarterly meeting, the 
formal offer from the St. Paul Chapter to the state 
took place. Mrs. E. H. Loyhed, accepting for the state. 
The same day the papers were drawn up, Mrs. McCourt 
was elected president; Mrs. E. H. Loyhed, vice presi- 
dent ; Mrs. F. H. Jerrard, secretary-treasurer, and the 
regents of the chapters in the state, directors. 

Things now began to fly in ^Nlendota and the restora- 
tion began. A caretaker was appointed, and prepara- 
tions were begun for a big gala day on Flag day, 
June the l-tth, 1910, which should open to the public 
the first stone house built in Minnesota, as a historic 
museum. 



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HON. HKNKV IIASTINCxS SIBLKV, LT-. D. 

At the time he was a member of Congress in 1849, from 

Minnesota Territory 



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THE LIFE OF HENRY HASTINGS SIBLEY, LL. D. 

K. S. Mrfi.iMrr 

The first governor of the State of jMiniiesota, Ilcairy 
Hastings Sibley, was born at Detroit, Michigan, Febru- 
ary 20, 1811. He was tlie son of Chief Justice Sohtnioii 
Sibley of the Supreme Court, who was a former dis- 
trict attorney, a member of the first legislature in the 
Xorthwest, and delegate to Congress in 1820. AVliiie a 
meml)er of this body he drafted and introduced into tlie 
legislature an act to incorporate Detroit, and in conse- 
quence was voted the freedom of the city, and later was 
elected as it's mayor. General Silbley's mother was 
Sarah AYhipple-Sproat, a real daughter of the American 
Revolution, being the daughter of a colonel in tlie 
American army, and the granddaughter of the famous 
Comnu)dore AVhipple. 

Young Sil)ley received his c(lu<*ation in a private 
school in Detroit, IMichigan. Wlien he was still a very 
small boy, his parents made plans to have him attend 
the West Point ^Military Academy, and he subsequently 
undertook a course of education preparatory to the life 
of a soldier. Later he resigned in favor of his brother, 
Ebenezer, who became a colonel in the regular army. 
His father then wished him to study law, which he be- 
gan to do, at the age of fifteen. In about two years, 
however, he gave up his legal studies, and when but 
seventeen years of age, he went to the military post at 
Sault Ste. Marie, where lie engaged as a clerk in the 
store of one John Ilulburt. The next year he took a 
position as clerk in the American Fur Coiiii)any"s stoi-e 
at Alackinac, whicli lu^ held for five years, or until iu 

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1832-183-4, he was made purchasiug agent of tlie Mack- 
inac station. 

In 183-4 he formed a partnership with Hercules L. 
Dousman and Joseph Rolette in the American Fur Co., 
of New York city, of which Ramsey Crooks was presi- 
dent. By the terms of the agreement between the 
three men, Dousman and Rolette were to continue in 
charge of the Prairie du Chien station, and Sibley was 
to have control of the country above Lake Pepin, to the 
head waters of the Missouri, and north to the British 
line, with headquarters at St. Peters (now Mendota), at 
that time the chief town of the trading district. He at 
once set out on horseback with Alexis Bailly, and two 
French-Canadian employes of the fur company. On 
their arrival at Fort Snelling. November 7, 3834:, 
Sibley immediately began his work, residing meanwhile 
with his friend Bailly. In 1835, Sibley l)ought out 
Bailly 's interest in the St. Peters depot, and in the same 
year he built the Sil)ley Home. He moved to St. Paul 
in 1862. During this twenty-seven years residence in 
his ]\Iendota home, he was successively a citizen of 
four different states, Michigan, Iowa, AVisconsin, and 
Minnesota without a change of residence, due to 
changes in territorial boundaries. His associates dur- 
ing his early stay in Mendota were chiefly the officers 
of the foi't, the traders and employes of the fur com- 
pany, and Indians. 

He had been honored by the visits of many men of 
scientific and ]iolitical renown, who were attracted to 
his mansion, not only from tlie United States, but also 
from Euro])!'. He soon became an authority on the 
geography, inhabitants, and resources of the Northwest 
territory. 

His acquaintance with the Indians was very wide. 
He spoke their language, and that of the French, fully 
as wi'll as lie did English. It is said that Sibley knew 
his Itidiaii neighbors so well 1ha1 he felt no fear in 

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slccpiti-i' in Ihcii' lodti'cs, wliidi he (iricii did. Sibley 
was knowu by th(; savages as " Wah-zo-o-niaii-see" 
(walkor in the i)ines), and " Wali-pe-ton-honska" (tlie 

t;dl trader). 

In 18H8, General Sil)ley was appointed by Gov. 
Chambers, of Iowa, the first justice of the peace, west of 
the Missjssipi)i i-ivei-, in present jMinnesota, in that por- 
tion of the state west of the river, a portion of Jowa, 
nnd the p^reater part of the Dakotas. By this appoint- 
ment he l)ecome the sole and supreme law giver of a 
territory as large as the Empire of France. He was also 
the first foreman of the grand jury in these limits. 
Governor Chambers in 1842, commissioned him captain 
of militia, and he raised and drilled seventy-five 
mounted riflemen. In 1848, he Avas elected delegate to 
congress from the territory left over after the admis- 
sion of Wisconsin, and after some delay was given a 
seat. The congressmen at AVashington Avere very much 
surprised when they first beheld Congressman Sibley. 

For many days before Sibley's arrival tliey had 
planned on seeing a wild and wooly cowboy, with a re- 
volver in each hip pocket, or at least dressed in Indian 
costume, with uncouth bearing and dress such as would 
be characteristic of the rude and semi-civilized people 
who had sent him to the capitol. AYhen Sibley appear- 
ed he was dressed in clothes which would not have 
been out of place in any court of Europe, moreover he 
had a stately and dignified bearing, and a culture which 
few of his collegues possessed. They were naturally 
surprised, and could scarcely believe that they were 
looking on the Minnesota delegate. 

During his first session he introduced, and secured 

the passage of an act organizing ^Minnesota Territory.* 

In the fall of 1849, he was elected to represent this new 

territory, and was re-elected in 1851. 

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In arranging the details of this bill, admitting Minne- 
sota as a territory, General Sibley had many a warm discus- 
sion and argument with Stephen A. Douglas, then chairman 

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As a memlxT of congress Sil)I('y was an invaluable 
man to liis territory, wliidi was both lar<j:i' and had a 
sparse white population, and was l)elieved by many to 
be unfit for settlement, or as one member expressed it 
a '"Hyperborean Ke^iion." This ])ri'judicc Sibley soon 
dispelled by a nund)er of well written articles for the 
press, in which he set forth the advantag'es of the 
Northwest reg'arding its climate, inhabitants and re- 
sources. It moreover was due to Sibley's great tact and 
poAvers of persuasion that was able to procure the 
liberal and generous appropriations, which ho did for 
his state, and "which one possessing less tact than he 
could never have ol)tained.* 

In 1857 he was elected to the i)i'esidency of the 
Democratic branch of the (Constitutional Convention, 
and in 1853 he was elected the first governor of the 
state of Minnesota. 

riis military services during the Indian troubles 
from 1862-65 gained for him a Avide reputation and re- 
nown, wdiich will ncxcr ]ierish, though never be fully 
appreciated. The next day following the sudden and 
disastrous uprising of the Sioux of Minnesota, August 
]8, 3862, he w^as commissioned a colonel commanding 
the expeditioniary force sent against them. That even- 
ing he planned out his whole campaign, which plan he 
followed out during the entire war, with scarcely a 
deviation from his original designs. 

Sibley was so successful in putting down the upris- 
ing that the president Abraham Lincoln commissioned 
him a l)rigadier general, for galbml and meritorious 
services in the field. In ls(i4-(ir) lie was in command of 



of the house committee on territories, regarding the loca- 
tion of the capitol. Sibley finally won his point, and con- 
vinced Douglas that St. Paul was at least somewhat superior 
to Mendota as a capitol city, and when Douglas later visited 
St. Paul he came to agree with Sibley's arguments. 



His speech before the house committee Dec. 28, 184 8, his 
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the military district of ^Minnesota, from wliich he was 
relieved in August. ISC)"), ami was i-clircd with the rank 
oi' lircNct major ^eiiei'al. and detailed on a eonnnission 
willi (iem-ral Cnrtis. and others to conelude treaties 
with the Sionx. and the hostile Indians of the Missouri. 

General Sibley was married hy the post chiiplain, 
Kev. Ezekiel (!ear. at the Fort on May M. IMd.'i, to IMiss 
Sarah L. Steele, the dantihter of (ieneral -lames Steele 
of Peinisylvania, who like Sibley's mother was a 
Daniihter of the American l\e\'ohdion. (A .sket(di of 
this noble Avonmn's life is to be fonnd (dsewhere in this 

1 klet.) 

We nnist not thiid< of Sibley only as a statesman, 
and soldier. Oni- beloved governor was not a man wdiq 
songht fajne. lu^ was rather a man who wished to devote 
his life to the betterment of his fellowmen. 

He was by natnre kindhearted, generous, and liberal 
even to i)rodigality. and often gave the very furniture 
in his house to the guest, who might admire some 
si>ei'ial article. He probably gave more to public, and 
])rivate charity than any man in the state ever did. 

Of Sibley's literary abilities nnndi might be said 
His literary contributions in his younger days, were 
])oth in his own name and under the nom de plume of 
"Hal a Dakotah." He wrote and delivered many ex- 
cellent addresses during his life as congressman and 
governor, most of whi(di are today preserved in the 
historical library at the state capitol. 

His letter to Senator Foote. which appeared in the 
Washington Union. Feb. ISfjO. gave to tlu' outside world 
the first authentic information concerning these regions, 



maiden effort in Congress is one whicli any constituency 
might well be proud of, and not only reflected honor on him- 
self, but determined the result of the whole sharp struggle, 
and proved him to be the peer of any debater in the councils 
of the Union. — Minn. Hist. Coll. Vol. I, PP. 69-7 6. 



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and did much to attract public attention hither.* His 
brief histories of the lives of his pioneer friends, and 
his breezy and pointed newspaper articles are classics 
in themselves. 

As a citizen of St. Paul, Sibley was a very useful 
and able man. From 1888-1890. he was the Commander 
of the Loyal Legion, and at other times he was presi- 
dent of the Cham1)er of Commerce, director of the First 
National Bank, and of the St. Paul & Sioux City rail- 
way, president of the St. Paul Gas Co., president of the 
Minnesota Life Insurance Co.. president of the St. Paul 
City Bank, Fellow of the American Geographical So- 
ciety, president Oakland Cemetery Association, presi- 
dent of the Board of Regents of the University of jNlin- 
nesota, and for two j^ears ])resident of the State Normal 
School Board. 

Many places in IMinnesota have been named after 
Sibley, the city of Hastings, Sibley County, and in St. 
Paul, Sibley street and Sibley school. 

General Sibley died in St. Paul, Feb. 18, 1891, within 
two days of his eightieth birthday. 

The state of IMinnesota owes a debt to Sibley, which 
it never can repay, and it would seem that the state 
has been ungrateful in not having ei'ected some sort of 
a monunu'ut to his memory. 

It h;is reniiiiiied for the Dnugliters of the American 
Revolution to erect this monument, which they have 
most fittingly done in resloi'ing of Silble^y's old man- 
sion, and Ihe mak'ing of it into a historic museum. 



Note by Chief Justice (Joodrich, page 271, Collection 
Minn. TTist. So. 



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GEN'L HENRY HASTINGS SH^LEY 
Pholo bv C. A. Zimmerman, 1890 



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MRS. SARAH si'koAr snu.Kv 

A REAL DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 



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A REAL DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN 
REVOLUTION. 

Few of the j)i()ii('('r woincii of Wcstci'ii civilizat ion 
are more deserving' of a i)lace in liistory than (leiici-ni 
Sii)]ey's mother, Sarah AVhii)i)le Sproat, and as A 
HEAL J)ArCIITTEH OF THE A:\IERU"AX KEV()!,('. 
TIOX. she is entitled to a phiee in this D. A. R. hookhi. 
Sarah S])i-()at's g'randfather Avas the famous Com- 
modore Al)raham Whipi)h'. and her father was a 
eolonel in the Ameriean army, both serving with brav- 
ery and distinction during- the entire Revohitionary wai'. 
Sarah AVhippU' S{)roat was born in Providence R. I.. 
January 28. 1782, just four months after the surrender 
of Cornwallis at Vorktown. The events in her life 
seem to be eoineident with great events in th(» liistory 
of this country, for when she was but seven years old, 
the same year AVashingtoii Avas tirst elected president, 
her parents left their Rlioih^ Island home for the then 
unsettled and mostly undiscovered AVest. ti'av(ding far 
out to the mouth of the iMuskingum river. Ohio, and 
settling at a place which socni became kiioAvn as 
Marietta. 

They were compcdled to live in log huts, surrounded 
by Indians, with poor food and scanty clothing, contin- 
ually exposed to hardships and privations which w^'re 
enough to discourage the strongest hearted pioneer. 
Here she lived until she was ten years old. when an 
Indian war threatened the settlers. Her father's first 
thought was naturally of his only daughter, whose life 
he felt he could not risk in the face of such appalling- 
danger, and so he travelled with her on horseback seven 
hundred miles to the Moavian school at Bethlehem Pa , 
where she remained three years. Having completed her 

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elementary training she Avent to Philadelphia to complete 
her education. At seventeen she returned to ]\Iarietta, 
Avhicli was now much larger and safer. Not long after 
her return a handsome lawyer named Sibley came into 
the settlement. A short time afterwards he became 
acquainted with Colonel Sproat's handsome daughter; 
the friendship soon ripened into love, and terminated in 
their marriage in October, 1802, when Sarah Sproat was 
in her tAventieth year. 

The young couple now moved to Detroit, IMich., 
where they found a warm welcome from a big circle of 
congenial friends, many of whom were the descendants 
of French and English noblemen. Sibley soon hung 
out his shingle, and began a legal practice, which was 
eventually to land him on the Michigan Supreme Court 
bench. 

In the spring of 1805, the town of Detroit was de- 
stroyed by fire and the Sibley's lost their little home, 
and their few belongings in the flames. The parents of 
Henry Hastings Sibley, however, were not to be dis- 
couraged by such a little thing as a loss by fire, they 
immediately purchased an old delapidated house on the 
main square, which they refurnished and repaired. It 
was in this house that our first Governor was born on 
February 20, 1811. 

Every reader of histoi-y is awai'c of the terrible suffer- 
ing Detroit experienced from the hands of the British 
during the war of 1812, and of the disgraceful sur- 
render of the fort by Gen. Hull. AVhen the attack Avas 
made on the city, the women and children were all 
placed in the fort for safety. Mrs. Sibley, then the 
mother of three children was found holding her young- 
est child, Henry Hastings, in her arms, while with her 
busy hands she was making cartridges for the soldiers. 
Four officers including her cousin, were killed by a 
cannonhall in the adjoining room. Her husband Avas 
out in llic field commanding a company of militia at 

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the time, yet amid all llic discharging of rifles, the roar 
of cannon, the wails of the dying, and the cra.sliing of 
falling timbers she eoidimicd her work with coolness and 
bravery, up to the moment of the disgraceful surrender. 
History tells us that IT. IT. Sibley was a captive in the 
hands of the British when ho was scarcely a year old. 

After the sui'rcudcr Mr. and j\lrs. Sibley made two 
visits to Ohio, the last being in 1819, when Mrs. Sil)ley 
brought her widowed mother with her back to Detroit. 
She was now fifty years old, and the mother of nine 
children. Her husband's honors were now thick upon. 
him, for he was seated on the Michigan Supreme Court 
bench, and had received all the honors the city of 
Detroit could bestow upon him. Henry Hastings had 
by this time grown into manhood and had gone to seek 
his fortunes in the great "West, where the white man's 
• home was only a hunting camp or a trading post. 

Mrs. Sibley's life up to this time had been a long 
hard struggle against the wants and hardships of fron- 
tier life, she had helped to found a state, fashion a ris- 
ing generation, fix in the minds of her children a re- 
spect for truth, the love of virtue, the fear of God, and 
noble aspirations. To the life and memory of this good 
woman Mrs. Ellett, in "The Pioneer Women of the 
West" has assigned a place of honor. In speaking of 
Mrs. Sibley, she says: ''The duties incumbent on her 
as a wife and mother she faithfully performed. A large 
family grew up around her, in whose minds it was her 
constant endeavor to instill such high principles as 
would make them true to themselves and useful mem- 
bers of society. To her, most truly, could the scriptural 
passage be applied, 'Her children shall rise up and call 
her blessed.' " 



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MRS. SARAH srKI':i.I'; SIHLI'IN 



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MRS. SARAH JANE SIBLEY 
-By- 
Mrs. Julia M. Johnson, M. A., Dean of Women at 
Macalester College. 

Mrs. Sarah Jano Sil)l('y \v;is ;i daughlt^r of GcTieral 
James Steele, a Hrigadier in llic war of 1812, tlii'cc of 
whose older brothers had been oftlcci-.s in llic Kcvolu- 
tionary war. 

No testimonial to (General Sibley wouhl be a(bM|uat<' 
without a cordial tribute to the wife, who pi-oved her- 
self a l)rave adventurer, alile to share without a mur- 
mur the hardships of ])i()neer life, and by loyalty to her 
husband's interests nuike much of his success possible. 
All agree that she was beautiful, graceful and accom- 
plished, but she was more. ]\Irs. Sibley had master(Ml 
the fine art of housekeeping, and knew how to train and 
control a motley grou}) of servants in those days when 
the labor agencies of St. Louis sent to far-away ]\Ien- 
dota sorry excuses as cooks ami liouse maids. p]ven 
under these conditions she exerted a social influence 
that was felt throughout the Northwest, and did much 
toward making St. Paul one of the nu)st cosnu)p()litan 
and best organized of our city connnunities. 

She was an exjiert needlewoman who knew how to 
make clothes and how to wear them ; a gracicuis hostess, 
sufficiently democratic for tlie time and place, yet 
possessing a jjersonal dignity that commanded r('sp(M:'t 
from all classes. Iler hospitality was boundless; many 
a cold niglit the Indians la\' wrapped in tlieii- blankets 
on the parlor floor as closely as they could be placed, 
while every room in the house was occupied by guests 
or relatives. 

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Her children found in her a sympathetic and versa- 
tile companion who, by foresight and executive ability, 
provided, without seeming to do so, for their comfort 
and amusement. Humor was one of the prime luxuries 
of the Sibley home, as it had been in that other genial 
home in Lancaster, Penn., and many rigors were soften- 
ed by the ready jest and capacity for amusement. 

Had Mrs. Sibley been less loving, her life might have 
been longer. The death of her two little children and 
the long anguish of separation from her husband, while 
he was absent in the Indian campaign, left a permanent 
shadow upon her life. AVhile future Minnesotans may 
like to know these intimate facts of her history, it will 
be as the heroic wife of Gen. Sibley, the most romantic, 
the most distinguished pioneer of early Minnesota that 
she Avill be remembered, admired and loved best. 

AVliat better material could a novelist or a dramatist 
Avisli tlian the actual life story of General and Mrs. 
Siblev. 



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Scenes in Mendota 




MAIN STREET 




OLD FARIDAL l.T HOUSE 
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ST. PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH 
The Oldest Church in the State of Minnesota 




MR. IREFEEE AL'(;i': 
For forty years in the employ of Cen'l Sibley 



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A Word from our Pioneer Friends 




H. S. FAIRCHILD 



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By Request — A Brief Appreciation of 
GENERAL HENRY HASTINGS SIBLEY 

liy 11. S. Faiivhild. 

^liiiiifsotii li;is had five really great men: (leiicral 
Sibley, <i()v. Alex. Ramsey. Senator C. K. Davis. Arch- 
bishop Irchind. and J. J. Hill. 

Of tiifsc tile h'ast appreciated, though universally 
loved and admired, is ({en. Sihlcy. Still the public esti- 
mation falls far below his nici'itorious. self-sacrifieing 
services to the state, in his ci\il and inilitary life. 

To thosi' who know that Stephen A. Douglas, in the 
Enabling Act for the organization of Minnesota as a 
Territory, had located the capitol at INIendota. which 
would have made ]\lr. SiUh-y a millionaire, and that 
Gen. Sibley with an uttci- alniegation of self and thiidv- 
ing only of the state's interests, firmly and steadfastly 
opposed local ing the capitol at ^leiidota. and finally 
succeeded in |)lacing i1 at St. Paul; and l<iio\v how i)er- 
sistentl.w ably, and (^bxpienlly he clianipioiied in Con- 
gress Goodhue's hold, sagacious and pro])hetic project 
of constructing a r;iilroad from New Orleans to Duluth, 
together with all other maltei-s affecting the interests 
of ^linnesola: ^\•ho know how raithfully he stood by 
Douglas in the ('liai'lest(Ui convention, when rebellion 
Avas rearing its head: who know how earnestl\' he op- 
posed the •t;">.000.0()() loan hill forseeing its coi-i'upt use, 
and as earnestly insisted (in payment of the bonds after 
the state's honor had been pledged. Those who k-now 
of these and man\' other unselfish services, k'liow his 
splendid military services; defeating Little ("row antl 
his hordes of bloodthirsty savages; saving the state 
fi-oin desolation, rescuing more than a hundi'ed of cap- 
tive women suffei-ing avoi'sc than death, and driving 
the savages beyond our boi'dei's; those who know these 
things a!id man\' iiiore that might he emunerated, feel 
that the statue of lletify Hastings Sibley should have 
tilled one of the ni(dies in the Temple of Fame at 

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AVnsliiiiiitoii. W'liy tho slate lias iiol loii^- a<j,() dccriMHl 
it and made the necossary appi'opriat ion is hryoiid 
coniprelieiisioii. 

Others are worthy of the lioiior, but heyond all 
quest ion. the lirst place should have heen assigned to 
the bold, brave, ad\-enturous pioncM'i'. the successful 
business man. the wise, sagacious, ehxjueiit and watch- 
ful legislator, the wise ruler, tlie successful mili1ai\\' 
eomuuiuder. — to Gen. Henry Hastings Sibley, who also 
should be inimoiialized in uuii-ble on our stale ca{)itol 
grounds. 

The cond)iiu'd coni'lesy, urbanity and dignity of his 
manners besjioke the blue blood that had flowed for 
several centuries thi-ough the veins of his illustrious 
ancestry. 

He was the i)roduct of seven or lught centuries of 
culture and experience in the administration of public 
affairs in England and America, to which he added a 
most varied and remarkable experience from boyhood 
to old age as an adventurous frontiersnum. a hunter, 
an explorer, a business man, a scholar, an author, a 
legislator, a statesman, and a successful military com- 
mander. 

He was so near to us, so connected with our business 
enterprises, our societies and associations, so accessible, 
so wholly unpretentious, that his fellow citizens only 
thought of him as a neighbor and friend, and were in 
a large measure oblivious of the fact that he was one 
of the really great men of his generation. 

General Sibley was a Nobleman. The dignity was 
conferred by the Almighty. He carried the credentials 
of his high birth in his face, his ])ei'son, in his cai'riage 
and manners. 

He w^as one of the really great nuui of his day. anil a 
man of the highest character. 

Intellect, courage, charactiu" Avere unmistakably 
stamped on his face. 

As time recedes, his fame will grow. 

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A. L. LARPENTEUR. 

"The Oldest Living Citizen in the State of Minnesota." 

]\Ir. A. L. Larpciit ciir \v;is lioi'ii in iJall iiiiorc;, JMary- 
land, I\hiy 1<>. IS^o. lie spent most of his car-ly days in 
St. Lonis, ]\I<)., and i1 was I'l'oin there tliat he came to 
St. Paul in 184;5. when the city had hul two or- thcee 
small houses, and a few tradini: stores. Mr. Lar[)eiilein' 
was one of the menihers of the eoM\cntion which met at 
Stillwater in 1848, and sent II. II. Sibley to con<?ress 
as the first dele<j'ate from ^Minnesota tei-i-itor.w 

When St. Paul was laid out in July, 1847, Lar})enteur 
Avsa the one who ])lantpd the first stake for the survey- 
ors, and when the town became a city in 1854, he was 
elected a member of the first council. Today Mr. Lar- 
penteur is eighty-seven years of age; hale and hearty; 
and the only man left of those who laid the foundations 
of our state, before it was known as such. Tiie follow- 
ing is a story which he is very fond of relating, concern- 
ing General Sil)ley's tame elk: 

"While still occupying my little honu', at the place 
where the police station now^ stands, I, one morning 
looked out into the back field, and saw an elk feeding. 
The animal had immense antlers, and I called my wife 
to see them. I felt sure that we should have a little 
fresh elk-beef for a change, so I took down my gun; 
carefully approached the "critter;" took careful aim, 
and fired. I had loaded my gun with fine shot, and it 
seemed to make no impression on the animal at all, for 
instead of running aAvay the elk came directly toward 
me, and licked the hand of its would-be murderer. I 
noticed then, that the elk had a collar on, and learning 
that H. H. Sibley had a tame elk, I concluded that it 
must be his, so I took a rope and secured it. That after- 
noon a steamer left from St. Paul for IMendota, and I 
took the animal aboard and returned it to its owner, 
who thanked me very kindly for the trouble his 
menagerie had put me to. 1 never told him, however, 
how I had attempted to kill his elk with nuistard-seed 
shot. 

"When Ignorance Is Bliss Tis Folly to Be AVise." 

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A WORD FROM B. H. RANDALL 

— of— 
WINONA, MINN. 

At the time IT. II. Sibley was L'luvl Factor of the 
American Fur Company, at Mendota, I was a clerk for 
Franklin Steele, sutler at Fort Snelling, and as Mrs. 
Sibley was a sister of Franklin Steele, I was often a 
guest at the Sibley home, now owned by the D. A. R., 
and was present there in 1851 at the marriage of Lieut. 
R. AV. Johnson, U. S. A., and Miss Kachel Steele^ a sister 
of Mrs. Sibley. 

After the close of the Civil War, on his occasional 
hunting trips to Nicoll(»t county with such companions 
as Gen. W. S. Hancock-, ('ol. (iilmaii, and Bruno 
Beaupre, he was oftcTi a guest at my house in St. Peter. 

[ trust that the IMinnesota Society Daughters of the 
American Revolution, who own the Sibley house in 
Mendota, will aid in having placed in IMcniorial Hall, 
Wasliinglon, a statute of Cen. Sil)lrv, TllF. FIRST 
MINNESOTAN. 

R. H. RANDALL, 

Winona. 



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]M().\(i llic iiijitiy rciniiiiseenees 
wliicli cm-icli the Sibley House, 
iioiu' appcjils more to the art 
lovers of the state, than the 
incinory of Hurt Ilarwood's 
si-hool of art hehl in this historic 
lioiiie ill the siniinier of 1895. 
This i)hi('e. saturated Avith 
primitive beauty, supplied the art atmosphere neees- 
sary to inspire the students, many of whom by extend- 
ed art culture in Eastern and European centers, have 
since become recognized beyond ordinary. 

Nerval INIarchand, whose illustrations are seen in 
Harper's and the Century; Edward McKey, whose re- 
cent portraits have gained him distinction in New York; 
the late Marguerite Heiser, whose work had given her 
international fame ; Elizabeth Chant, whose mural 
paintings adorn many Minneapolis homes and the BIc- 
Key sisters, now living in New York, designers of tapes- 
tries and costumes ; are but a few of this memorable 
Mendota art colony. 

The large front room, with its deep seated windows, 
its worn floors, its tapestry hung walls, its antique spin- 
ning wheel and its grand piano, was the rendezvous for 
groups of people, — the students and their friends, and 
no visit was complete without an inspection of the 
house, with its unique and primitive construetiou and 
its story of early historical interest. 

The lower back room was the art gallery. wIktc the 
exhibition was continuous, for all sketches were thuml)- 
tacked on its walls at the close of each day amid a 
coterie as anxious to give as to receive criticism. And 

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many a varied and valuable eritieism was given by such 
able critics as Burt Harwood and Alex. Founier, a fre- 
quent visitor at the school. The ufjper floor was used 
as a dormitory and cots were crowded as the summer 
advanced to accommodate the throng of applicants. 

]\Irs. Antionette de Forest Parsons, an artist of pro- 
nounced ability, a pupil of Chase and otlier dislin- 
guished Eastern artists, made an agreeable chaperon 
who left nothing undone to secure soeial entertainment 
and extended her generous hosi)itality to the many St. 
l^aul and ^Minneapolis visitors who availed themselves 
of this opportunity to visit the historic old homestead. 

So the Sibley House, rich in historical interest, 
bears an important pai't in the Art development of the 
state, as well. 

— K. ^laud Clum. 




I..SI&1 









ki\i.k \ii',\vs 
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Friend and Associate 




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Brevit Major-General, U. S. A. 



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^ ^ * w .- I I Y J T 378-580-590 Holly Avenue 

VJxV IV 1 1 ^V I ^1^ ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 

MRS. F,ACKUS SCHOOL FOR (iIRT>S 

I'.oarciiiiL; and Day (lei)artineiits. Collect; Preparatory ami i'inisbin.j; 
Coiirse.s, Art and Music. Send for year liook. 

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CROCUS HILL GROCERY CO. 

STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES 

< >74 ii K AND .V \ 1^: N I J J^: 

X. \V. I'hone Dale 329 and 923 T. S. I'hone 4129 

nuv LAN PI IKK Fl RS 

Made by the Pioneer Fur House of the Northwest. Mens Fur Garments of 

all kinds. Ladies Furs in exclusive designs. Quality 

guaranteeed by the makers. 

LANPHER, SKINNER 6 CO. 

sr. PAUL 

aKO. R. HOI^MKS. 

DlAMONlJS x^]\L> \\^\TC IIKS, 

ST. PAUL, MINN. 

415 K« > M !■; wr S'l" i< k kt 



Scheffer & Rossum Go 

INCORPORATED 
JOBBER and MANUFACTURERS 

LEATHER, SADDLERY, 
SHOE FINDINGS 



216-226 Kast Fourth Street, 

ST. PA I I., :\nxx. 



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One copy del, to Cat. Div. 




Smith & Bore's Furniture Go's New Store 

The largest building in the City devoted exclusively for the sale of 

FURNITURE, CARPETS. RUGS. DRAPERIES, 
STOVES and FURNISHINGS 

Cor. bth and Minnesota Streets ST. PAUL. MINNESOTA 

Not Relics .IZ. Old Settlers 

Established 1875 Incorporated 1900 





409-411 Sibley St., ST. PAUL 

(How appropriate we should be on Stbtey Street) 

Our Popular "FULL VALUE" BRAND is only on the best ol ^ od» 
Call on us and we will tell how to obtain Supplies of this brand. 



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